Requirements:

Your submission must be your original work. No more than a combined total of 30% of the submission and no more than a 10% match to any one individual source can be directly quoted or closely paraphrased from sources, even if cited correctly. Use the Turnitin Originality Report available in Taskstream as a guide for this measure of originality.

You must use the rubric to direct the creation of your submission because it provides detailed criteria that will be used to evaluate your work. Each requirement below may be evaluated by more than one rubric aspect. The rubric aspect titles may contain hyperlinks to relevant portions of the course.

A. Analyze one federal government payer program for healthcare services (i.e., Medicare, Federal Employees Health Benefits Program, Indian Health Service, or TRICARE) making an impact on today’s healthcare ecosystem by doing the following:

1. Explain how your chosen federal government payer program impacts licensure, certification, or accreditation standards.

2. Explain how your chosen federal government payer program influences each of the following:

a. clinical quality reporting systems

b. reimbursement for healthcare services

c. patient access to care

B. Evaluate how health information management plays a part in your chosen federal government payer program by discussing a specific professional role within the HIM profession and how the role supports the goals of the chosen federal government payer program.

C. Acknowledge sources, using APA-formatted in-text citations and references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, or summarized.